SARAH PALIN'S APPEAL TO PENNSYLVANIANS

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Sarah Heath (now Palin) on right (#22) as point guard on Wasilla H.S.'s state basketball championship team in 1982. She is one of the great female athletes in the history of Alaska.


Sarah Palin could provide great help to John McCain in earning the votes of Pennsylvanians. Make no mistake about it: Sarah Palin is very much a revered daughter of Alaska. However, she will have great appeal to voters in the Keystone State.

If you want to learn more about Sarah right now, I urge you to read Fred Barnes's article in The Weekly Standard. You can find it here.

The following are the opening paragraphs of Barnes's article:

"The wipeout in the 2006 election left Republicans in such a state of dejection that they've overlooked the one shining victory in which a Republican star was born. The triumph came in Alaska where Sarah Palin, a politician of eye-popping integrity, was elected governor. She is now the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating in the 90s, and probably the most popular public official in any state."

"Her rise is a great (and rare) story of how adherence to principle--especially to transparency and accountability in government--can produce political success. And by the way, Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state's proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, "may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history."

We Pennsylvanians are used to national (and state) politicians telling us how much they love we working stiffs. Most of those people are very wealthy individuals -- such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton -- who have little in common with the people in the Keystone State.

Sarah Palin does more than sing the praises of "working people." She's married to one, her husband Todd who's been a commercial fisherman and an oil field production worker. On many occasions, Sarah participated in the fishing business with Todd.

But wouldn't Sarah as governor be inclined to favor Todd's current employer, BP (British Petroleum). Actually, she raised the company's taxes (which had been at very low levels). With Sarah as governor, the big oil companies no longer run things in Alaska.

Pennsylvania is a state famous for its gun-toting hunters -- approximately one million of them. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will not say a discouraging word about guns -- unless of course they get elected to the presidency. Sarah Palin is an outstanding markswoman and a life member of the NRA.

Hillary Clinton will tell us that "every abortion is a tragedy." However, she will do nothing to prevent abortion of any kind, including partial birth abortion. As for Obama, he voted in the Illinois State Senate to allow "live-birth-abortion," basically a form of infanticide.

Sarah? She is staunchly pro-life. At age 43, she's pregnant with her fifth child. She's said recently that her being pregnant should not be any sort of barrier to her running for vice-president.

Pennsylvania has a long and distinguished tradition of military service. People like Obama and Hillary Clinton will say nice things about America's fighting men and women. Gov. Palin's son, Track, joined the U.S. Army on 9/11/2007, and he's now an infantryman -- almost certainly headed to either Iraq or Afghanistan. The Governor and her husband have a lot more than an abstract commitment to the military.

Is Sarah ready, if necessary, to become President of the U.S. She's not ready on this day, March 10, 2008, but she very close to being so. She will absolutely ready on the day John McCain is inaugurated in January, 2009. As Hillary Clinton suggests, Barack Obama will never be ready.

Pennsylvanians of all political stripes -- Republican, Independent, and Democrat -- need to take a good look at this remarkable woman. She will bring a dedication and decisiveness to Washington, DC that our nation sorely needs.

Pennsylvania Loves Gov. Sarah Palin

Note: This is a special column introducing Gov. Sarah Heath Palin of Alaska to Pennsylvania voters. She would be a great choice for Vice-President.

Above: Governor Sarah Palin visits with Marine Corporal Nathan Mandville from Alaska during a morale tour at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany. Corporal Mandville is being treated at LRMC for injuries he suffered while down range.

The following column is from http://BlogCritics.org by Cindy, who blogs from New Mexico and was a political protege of Lee Atwater.

Why Isn't New Mommy Sarah Palin Qualified To Be Vice President?

By S. J. Reidhead

Right now you are very fortunate that I have given up profanity for Lent. While I was reading my usual sources this morning, low and behold I discovered a certain conservative male on a very reasonable site which is political but fair to both sides of the aisle. I must also add that it is one of my ‘must read’ sites every day.

Oy (and that’s not profanity)...Lo and hehold (no profanity please), some Neanderthal wrote on the site that Sarah Palin, the very competent and very pregnant (seven months) governor of Alaska is probably out of the running for VP because she will be a new Mommy and would probably want to stay home with baby (no profanity please – it’s Lent)!I must also disclose that I am a fan of Governor Palin and have advocated for her potential as a VP right here at Blogcritics.If Governor Palin were a new, first-time Mommy I might give some credence to that mindset simply because she would need time to get adjusted to the whole situation.

But Governor Palin is expecting her fifth – count ‘em – fifth child. Sarah and Todd’s oldest son Track is 18 and serving our country. Their daughters are Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 6. I think Governor Palin’s been there and done that. Considering her age, she has had all the proper tests and everything evidently looks very good. She even knows the gender of the baby but is not telling. She knows what she is doing.

What better way for my beloved GOP to show how beautifully modern and progressive we truly are than to facilitate and encourage John McCain, our nominee, to select Sarah Palin as his choice for Vice President?

Baby Palin is not expected to make an appearance until mid-May, which is plenty of time for Mommy and baby to bond.Proclaimed “America’s Hottest Governor” by an understandably prejudiced Alaska Magazine, Palin is the perfect choice for VP.

Not only is she conservative, she is considered a “maverick” which would make her and GOP nominee John McCain a highly compatible duo. She was born in 1964 which would add just the right May/December touch to McCain’s seasoned 71.

Not only would she bring a much needed bundle of joy to the ticket, she would also bring her 90% approval rating along with her!What could be better? It is quite obvious we Republicans are going to have a serious financial deficit to deal with when it comes to fund raising. If Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, he has nearly a hundred million dollar financial advantage over John McCain. Can you imagine the publicity her selection would generate? We’re talking F-R-E-E publicity, fawning and gurgling over a brand new baby Palin.

This is like one of those Ronco infomercials. It gets even better. Not only do you get ‘The Hottest Governor in the US’ with her 90% approval rating AND all that FREE publicity, you get even more. This is two for one here. Wait — not only is it two for one with Mommy and Baby, but you get even more — more, I tell you!

For just the addition of Sarah and Baby Palin you get the added advantage of completely mutilating the feminist movement!If Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee, Sarah Palin counters any feminist appeal Hillary Clinton might have. Having her on our ticket reeks of equal rights for all.

If Barack Obama is the nominee, just having Baby Palin on board helps cut into all his millions upon millions of dollars he can spend on advertising. If the Democrats manage to provide every Republican with their fantasy of a brokered convention with Al Gore waiting to step in as an alternative candidate, Sarah Palin can go to battle against his insane environmental policies.

You want family values? She has it.You want patriotism? She has it. Track Palin enlisted in the Army. He wants to head to Iraq. You want a ‘maverick’? She has it. She took out Alaska’s corrupt power structure.She doesn’t like special interests. She is something of an idealist. She has enough executive experience to appear young and fresh to counter anything the Obama campaign might throw at John McCain. She is a champion of ethics reform.

Have I mentioned that she is young (44) and pretty? Unfortunately, there are those, liberal and conservative alike, who now think just because the woman is pregnant she is disqualified to become the Vice President of the United States of America! Can you image such a Neanderthal thought process? (I want to apologize to any Neanderthal who might be offended by this politically incorrect slur upon their mental capacity.)

In a world where working mothers are celebrated (I personally stand with Dr. Laura on the subject), but want to be near baby, what could be a better arrangement? Surely my Republican counterparts cannot object to a VP discretely nursing a cute little baby in her EOB VP suite. Who could possibly complain if she brought baby to work? After all, a VP is whatever the President wants her to be.

Let’s follow the thought process here. We have new mommies who go off to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. No one says they can’t do that. Women have babies every day, and go back to work in situations where they must either put their children in day care, or leave them entirely to the graces of lest than optimal situations.

This would not be the situation with Baby Palin. The little tyke would have every advantage any baby in the world would have. He or she would be the most publicized baby since the birth of Prince William. The child would be a super-star, sucking up every iota of good will and free publicity a cash-starved Republican campaign needs.

Honestly, this would be enough to give any pregnant parent pause. Would Sarah and Todd Palin want to subject a new baby to this sort of publicity? We can only hope they will answer in the affirmative. After all, they’ve done a very good job of balancing politics and family thus far. Why not take it a step farther?

Seriously, as a woman and a loyal Republican, I find the very though that a woman who has recently given birth being excluded from the VP list insulting. Unless something goes wrong with the the whole process there is no reason for Sarah Palin not to be considered for such a position.

Who said a new mommy cannot be Vice President of the United States of America?

Steve says: The best site to learn more about Gov. Sarah Palin is at: http://palinforvp.blogspot.com/. It's the blog "home" of Adam Brickley, a 20-year-old college student in Colorado Springs who founded the Draft Palin Movement, one that's been incredibly successful in generating positive publicity for Mrs. Palin.

I've written many essays about Gov. Palin, who is one of the very few political figures who could provide real help to John McCain in his efforts to win the presidency. Sarah Palin has a great chance, in 2012 or 2016, to become America's first female President. By the way, she's the only current U.S. governor who has a child in the military.